Fonts not workin with dual displays

[Cursed Nephilim]

Basically my problem is that some text is extremely small (GDM login and password, and all gaim text, also seems to be other programs that use gtk but im not certain). So small that you cant possible read it. But this only happens when using dual displays. When i set up only one display all is well. So im reasonably certain that it isnt hardware related. I've been playing around with this for a about two weeks and im tottaly stumped...If anyone has any ideas I would greatly appriciate it. I used to run mandrake and i didnt have this problem, but in almost every other aspect i prefer to run gentoo so I'm hoping i can find a way to make this work.

My hardware setup is as follows (although im reasonably sure that it is software related)

Radeon All in Wonder connected to a Gateway 27 inch Destination monitor at 800x600
Radeon 7000 connected to a Nokia 17-inch monitor at 1280x1024
Compaq Deskpro EN p3 733 w 512 megs of ram



Heres my XF86Config file...

Section "Module"
Load "freetype"
Load "type1"
Load "v4l"
Load "extmod"
Load "glx"
Load "dri"
EndSection


Section "Files"
RgbPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/rgb"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/75dpi:unscaled"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/misc"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/TrueType"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Type1"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/Speedo"
FontPath "/usr/X11R6/lib/X11/fonts/ghostscript"
EndSection


Section "ServerFlags"
Option "AllowMouseOpenFail"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Driver "keyboard"
Identifier "Keyboard1"
Option "XkbRules" "xfree86"
Option "XkbModel" "pc104"
Option "XkbLayout" "us"
EndSection


Section "InputDevice"
Identifier "Mouse1"
Driver "mouse"
Option "Protocol" "IMPS/2"
Option "Device" "/dev/usbmouse"
Option "ZAxisMapping" "4 5"
EndSection


Section "Device"
Identifier "device2"
Driver "radeon"
vendorname "ATI"
boardname "Radeon QD"
Screen 0
BusID "PCI:2:9:0"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Device"
Identifier "device1"
Driver "radeon"
VendorName "ATI"
BoardName "Radeon QD"
Screen 0
BusID "PCI:1:0:0"
Option "DPMS"
EndSection

Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor2"
VendorName "Typical Monitors"
ModelName "1280x1024, 74Hz"
ModeLine "640x480" 25.175 640 664 760 800 480 491 493 525
HorizSync 31.5-79
VertRefresh 50-100
ModeLine "1280x1024/74Hz" 135 1280 1312 1456 1712 1024 1027 1030 1064
EndSection


Section "Monitor"
Identifier "monitor1"
VendorName "Gateway"
ModelName "Gateway DL27-1"
HorizSync 31.0-38.0
VertRefresh 50-75
EndSection



Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen2"
Device "device2"
Monitor "monitor2"
DefaultDepth 24
Subsection "Display"
Depth 32
Modes "1280x1024/74Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "1280x1024/74Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "1280x1024/74Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "1280x1024/74Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
Subsection "Display"
Depth 4
Modes "1280x1024/74Hz" "640x480"
Virtual 0 0
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "Screen"
Identifier "screen1"
Device "device1"
Monitor "monitor1"
DefaultColorDepth 24

Subsection "Display"
Depth 8
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 15
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 16
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection

Subsection "Display"
Depth 24
Modes "800x600" "640x480"
EndSubsection
EndSection

Section "ServerLayout"
Identifier "layout1"
InputDevice "Keyboard1" "CoreKeyboard"
InputDevice "Mouse1" "CorePointer"
Screen "screen1"
Screen "screen2" RightOf "screen1"
Option "Xinerama"
EndSection
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[Cursed Nephilim]

Well i've solved my own problem...but not really. I disconnected the Gateway DL27 and replaced it with a second 17" monitor so both monitors are runnin at 1024x768 and now everything is fine. So I'm guessing that either the issue was related to the gateway monitor specifically or was related to the one monitor being at 800x600 and the second one being at 1024x768. I'm gonna have to play around some more but unfortunately im stuck with a 17 inch TV until I can get everything workin with the DL27 again. So any thoughts on why this is happening would be really appreciated
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[kybber]

I imagine it could be because the DPI gets screwed up. Do a 'xdpyinfo | grep resolution' in a setting that works and one that doesn't. Any difference may explain your problem. x and y resolution should be equal, or you'll get ugly-looking fonts.

You can manually set DPI if you use startx: 'startx -- -dpi 120x120'. There's probably a way for doing this with GDM as well. You could also try setting the DPI directly in your XF86Config (I don't remember the exact option atm - do a forum search).